... of America and The Soviet Union. The two countries were constantly battling over who is the most powerful on the planet. The supposed threats were mere techniques of propaganda used to scare the other countries public into believing they were more powerful. Over and over again the U.S would flex its muscles and then The Soviet Union would flex it's muscles until eventually one country couldn't. The Cold War lasted a very long time ... and it was fought through battles such as the Korean War ... ...

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... interceptor missiles. This merely allowed a greater store of ballistic missiles in both countries. By this time both the US and the former Soviet Union had so many ballistic missiles that the US sought a treaty with the Soviet Union to prevent Massive destruction from a devastating nuclear war. The treaty would reduce the amount of ballistic missile defenses, which the US hoped would reduce the amount of Ballistic Missiles. Their reasoning being a reduction in ... defenses would lessen the offensive reserves. The anti-ballistic missile treaty allowed ... ...

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... threaten economic status. The 3rd, the tragic or inevitable, sees the cold war as unavoidable or natural consequence of power imbalances. Economic pressure, nuclear intimidation, propaganda, and subversion, rather than military confrontation characterized the conflict between US and SU. In June of 1946, Truman submitted to the UN an atomic-energy control plan requiring the SU to stop all work on nuclear ... weapons and to submit to a system of UN control and inspection before the US would destroy its own atomic arsenal. Soviets rejected proposal. ... Mutual hostility escalated and Sovie...

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